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WOODEN RUSTIC ORNAMENTAL VASES. 
Throug-h the liberality of Mr. C, we are enabled to insert the following- figures of 
four additional vases, equally novel in appearance and simple in structure with the 
preceding- ones. Of their structure we need only say little here, sufficient having- 
been already advanced in the volume above referred to ; suffice it to say, that if any 
difficulty should occur to those who may wish to avail themselves of the plan, it 
M^ll be speedily obviated by attending to and comparing the respective figures with 
what has been already said in explanation at the page above adverted to. 
Fig. 1 is a most interesting ob- 
ject, especially when the branches of 
the plants have grown to a sufficient 
length to form a contrast with the 
flourishing directions of the rope, and 
a background for the showy flowers. 
It may here be necessary to no- 
tice, that these stands or vases may 
be, with little trouble, taken away in 
the winter, and stored in a shed or 
other convenient place until spring, 
when they may be brought out to 
the situation they are intended to re- 
main in during the summer ; this 
being the case, a good opportunity is 
given to get the plants intended to 
grow in them well forward in pots, 
&;c., and when the proper season ar- 
rives for putting out the vases, the 
plants may be at once plunged into the soil, when they will almost immediately 
commence flowering. As vases or stands of this description will in many situations 
be subject to the parching influence of the sun, we recommend watering the plants 
two or three times successively in the evening ; if the situation be partially or to- 
tally a shaded one, the plants will grow more vigorously, but will not produce so 
many flowers as they will if the warm and cheering beams of the sun are permitted 
to play upon them ; but in the latter case they must have a great supply of water. 
If Verbenas, Fuchsias, Anagallises, Petunias, Rhodichitons, LopJwspermums, or 
Geraniums are intended to be grown, they will be much better if well established, 
or even grown to a considerable size, in pots before planted out in the vase. Mr. 
Loudon has recommended stone vases, elevated on pedestals, as calculated to ensure 
the growth of herbaceous plants, &c., past the usual time such continue to exist in 
and about the smoky precincts of London ; the advantage in this arises from the 
high station of the plants when planted in vases six or seven feet above the ground, 
in aff'ording them a greater chance of enjoying the benefit of the sun, a greater cir- 
culation of air, and that in greater purity. To have herbaceous or annual plants 
in flower in front of dwelling houses in London, or any other large town, must be a 
very pleasing thing. 
